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February 1, 2013Medicare nearly doubled the size of one accountable care program as of Jan. 1 with 106 new ACO contracts that offer hospitals and doctors financial incentives to improve quality and slow health spending. Click here to view new ACO contracts … Continue reading
Posted in ACOs | Tagged ACO, CMS, CMS Policy, EHR Adoption, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Services | Leave a commentEnvironmental Intelligence Releases January 2013 Newsletter
January 31, 2013Environmental Intelligence LLC is pleased to release its January 2013 EI Connections Newsletter. Please send your feedback or suggestions to [email protected]. Click Here to view: January 2013 EI Connections Newsletter Want to automatically receive our monthly newsletter? Click on this link to … Continue reading
Posted in Environmental Intelligence | Tagged CMS, CMS EHR Incentives, CMS Policy, EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Consulting, EHR Hosting, EHR Implementation, EHR Incentives, EI Connections Newsletter, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Best Practices, Health IT Information Security, HHS, HIPAA Compliance, HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, HIT, Meaningful Use, ONC, Patient Experience, PHI, PHI Data Security, PHI Security | Leave a commentONC Releases EHR MU Stage 2 Test Measures
January 29, 2013Updated electronic health-record system test measures are now available from HHS’ Health IT office.Organizations with self-developed EHR systems as well as commercial vendors seeking to ensure their systems will pass muster with federally designated testing and certification entities can find … Continue reading
Posted in EHR Meaningful Use | Tagged CMS, CMS EHR Incentives, CMS Policy, EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, EHR Incentives, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Services, Meaningful Use, ONC, Stage 2 Meaningful Use Rule | Leave a commentMedical Organizations Calling For Revisions To Proposed Stage 3 Meaningful Use Criteria
January 18, 2013The American College of Physicians, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and Texas Medical Society have joined a growing chorus of organizations calling for revisions to proposed Stage 3 meaningful-use criteria and the way future standards for the federal … Continue reading
Posted in Meaningful Use | Tagged CMS, CMS EHR Incentives, CMS Policy, EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, EHR Incentives, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Policy, Health IT Services, Meaningful Use, ONC, Stage 3 Meaningful Use, Stage 3 MU Proposed Rule | Leave a commentONC Announces Authorized EHR Certification Bodies For Stage 2 Meaningful Use
January 15, 2013A small milestone on the road to Stage 2 meaningful use of electronic health-record systems has been passed.The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has announced that it has authorized a group of ONC-Authorized Certification Bodies to … Continue reading
Posted in EHR Meaningful Use | Tagged CCHIT Certification, CMS EHR Incentives, CMS Policy, EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Certification, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, EHR Incentives, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Policy, Health IT Services, Meaningful Use, ONC, Stage 2 Meaningful Use Rule | Leave a commentEHR Incentive Payments Now Total Over Ten Billion
January 14, 2013Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record payments are estimated to have blasted through $10.3 billion to a total of 180,200 physicians and hospitals through December 2012 since the program’s inception. December’s payments of $1.25 billion were driven by the largest … Continue reading
Posted in EHR Incentives | Tagged CMS, CMS EHR Incentives, CMS Policy, EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, EHR Incentive Payments, EHR Incentives, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Services, Meaningful Use, ONC | Leave a commentCMS Exploring Electronic Submission Of Clinical Quality Measures
January 8, 2013The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) wants to explore whether hospitals will be able to begin submitting clinical quality measures through their electronic health record systems by 2014.On December 21, 2012, CMS published a Request for Information asking hospitals … Continue reading
Posted in CMS | Tagged CMS, CMS Policy, EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Best Practices, Health IT Policy, Meaningful Use | Leave a commentGAO Report Examines 2011 CMS EHR Incentive Payments
January 7, 2013A new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) examines how the Medicaid EHR incentive payments were distributed in 2011. According to the report, released Dec. 13, the amount of Medicaid EHR incentive payments awarded to each hospital ranged from … Continue reading
Posted in EHR Incentives | Tagged CMS, CMS EHR Incentives, CMS Policy, EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, EHR Incentives, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Services, HHS, Meaningful Use | Leave a commentEnvironmental Intelligence Releases December 2012 Newsletter
January 2, 2013HAPPY NEW YEAR! Environmental Intelligence LLC is pleased to release its December 2012 EI Connections Newsletter. Please send your feedback or suggestions to [email protected]. Click Here to view: December 2012 EI Connections Newsletter Want to automatically receive our monthly newsletter? Click on … Continue reading
Posted in Environmental Intelligence | Tagged CMS, CMS EHR Incentives, CMS Policy, EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Best Practices, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, EHR Incentives, EHR Study, EI Connections Newsletter, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health Information Exchange, Health IT, Health IT Best Practices, Health IT Policy, Health IT Services, Meaningful Use, medical practice best practices, ONC, Patient Experience | Leave a commentCMS Announces To States – Partial Medicaid Expansion Won’t Qualify For Full Funding
December 21, 2012Acting CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner and other CMS officials announced on Monday that states which embark on a partial expansion of their Medicaid systems would not qualify for the full 100 percent funding under the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion … Continue reading
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